A vaunted black English Game is coming to the Philippines through RB Sugbo
Not known to many, cockfighting is still very much alive in England and Ireland. Cockfighting is illegal since the 1800’s both in England and Ireland but small groups of men, in a secretive network, regularly fight their cocks.
They wager in thousands of pounds. Thus, the English and Irish Games are still being kept very competitive up to these days. One bloodline making waves in the English and Irish pits is a strain of black English game that is being bred by an Irishman who belongs to a family who breeds Game fowl for already 5 generations.
According to the breeder, this bloodline has been in their family’s hands since 1895. This rare strain of the Black English Game is coming to the Philippines via RB Sugbo Gamefowl Technology. (The stag on the picture above is now a proven brood cock and it is coming to RB Sugbo in January with a couple of hens. Our scout was not allowed to take new picture or video for fear of being used as evidence.)
Our scout in Ireland observed that this particular family of English Game can match if not surpass in pit performance the best American lines.
Real fight-able English Game is now very rare anywhere in the world outside Ireland and England, and much rarer in the Philippines, if not altogether none existing. This particular great strain of Black English Game is even more the rarer.
According to a book, nearly two centuries ago black English Game cocks of Lord de Vere were famous, and continued to be regarded in great awe when afterwards bred by Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Burton, Staffordshire. According to his descriptions they were " a perfect jet black, gipsy faced, black legs, rather elegant than muscular, lofty in their manner of fighting, close in their feather and well-shaped."
They were game, brilliant, fast and strong. To this day these traits of the True Black English Game have been kept intact by generations of a family of breeders in an island nation in Europe. Until now they are being fought (illegally) with success.
True Blacks require no further description than black and entirely free from any other colour, and having black beaks, legs, and eyes, and gipsy faces.
Whereas in the past we at RB Sugbo were breeding semi blacks and brown reds including our own Blakliz, now we are starting to breed True Blacks and we need the Black English Game, among other black game breeds to capture the melanizing genes of true black game fowl. We also have just acquired a true black strain of American Game.
Actually, we are starting to turn the Blakliz into a new breed of game fowl, not just a strain of American Game. The English game will also be an ingredient of our lines to be exported to our existing clients in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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